Today on the Pop Culture Rewind, we're going to be talking about daytime talk shows.

We love this subject matter, and there happens to be an excellent documentary out right now.

It is called Dirty Talk, and it's on Hulu.

So I'm just going to start getting into this documentary.

We hear from most of the major players in this documentary. We see Maury, Montel, John Henson is there from, what's it called, Talk Soup. Oh, yes. He's on the show. And Sally Jesse Raphael, who's like in her 90s, by the way, and it's crazy. She looks amazing. And she's still

so with it. It's, like, wild. Does she still have the red glasses? She has the glasses and she

has really long red hair. Love it. So I love it. So we kind of go back to the 60s and 70s, like the start of daytime television

with people like Mike Douglas, Diana Shore, Julia Child, like that type of daytime television.

There's game shows, there's the children cartoons, and obviously soap operas. And the soap operas had like the, they were like

the original hot topics of the day, these daytime soap operas. They would have, you know,

cheating, abortion or like unwanted pregnancies, like stuff like that. So they were really kind

of poking their, um, those hot topics of the day before there was daytime talk.

Donahue starts.

He has a local show in Chicago.

At this point, the daytime audience is mostly women, obviously.

And the talk show that Donahue started really started getting this

kind of group therapy vibe. Like, it was like all these people together, talking to people about more

serious issues. And Donahue, as any fan knows, he was really good at that. Yeah. He really listened. He cared, which even back then,

a man doing that. He was gentle. He was like the original ally, for sure. He's the archetype.

So, you know, people would watch these shows and it would be like, hey, like, that happened to me or that happened to my cousin, like whatever issue they were talking about.

Specifically, you Desi, famously, you were watching and realized, well, yes, I too have been molested. But. Unlike these victims, I wasn't even groomed.

Yes.

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